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Letter from LJ Duffy, Labour Party, Dublin, to P Kennedy, Department of the Taoiseach, Dublin, 29 November 1940, on the subject of wages. Miss M Davidson is listed as the Assistant Secretary of the Party.

s 11953A

letter

Note from the Department of Local Government and Public Health, 9 February 1943, in relation to the payment of an emergency bonus to local authority employees. The note outlines the rate for married and single employees. 'The effect of this will be to reduce the bonus for unmarried men and to increase the bonus for married women'.

s 11953A

note

Letter from the Irish Local Government Officials' Union, to Sean McEntee, Minister for Local Government and Public Health, 26 February 1943, on the subject of emergency increases in the pay of Local Government Officials. The letter states that there is dissatisfaction amongst the Union's members with the manner in which the scheme is being administered. 'In the Dublin Corporation Service there never has been either a sex or marriage differentiation. The principle of equal pay for equal work has always obtained'.

s 11953A

letter

Statement issued to the Press by the Government Information Bureau, 1944, on the subject of emergency supplementary allowances for persons in allowance of Old Age and Blind Pensions and Disablement Benefit. The statement also refers to the payment of bonuses to civil servants whose total remuneration does not exceed £500. Rates are given for male and female civil servants, for example, 'Whole-time officers whose total remuneration does not exceed £500 a year or the appropriate weekly equivalent: Married, widowers and widowers - total emergency bonus of 10/- a week; Unmarried, male and female: total emergency bonus of 8/- a week'.

s 11953A

Statement

Letter from P O'Cinneide, Department of the Taoiseach, to the Private Secretary to the Minister for Finance, 21 January 1944, regarding emergency supplementary allowances for persons in receipt of Old Age and Blind Pensions and Widows' and Orphans' Pensions.

s 11953A

letter

Memorandum for the Government from the Department of Finance, 1945, in relation to the Cost of Living Bonus and Emergency Bonus in the Public Service. The memorandum includes rates of pay for women civil servants. The memorandum also refers to National Teachers and Secondary Teachers. 'On the 18th December, 1942, the Government decided to grant Emergency Bonus at the rates of 7/- a week (men) and 5/- a week (women)'.

s 11953B

memorandum

Memorandum for the Government from the Department of Finance, 30 October 1946, regarding an increase in emergency bonus to employees of Dublin Corporation. The memorandum includes the current rates of emergency bonus which are paid to civil servants. 'Married, Widowers or Widows - 15s per week; Unmarried male or female - 13s per week'.

s 11953B

memorandum

Memorandum for the Government from the Department of Health, 30 April 1947, regarding the remuneration of Institutional Officers of Local Authorities. The memorandum states that the rates of pay for certain types of work are very low, for example, 'in the case of domestic staff of institutions such as wardsmaids and kitchen-maids the existing scales of remuneration are in many cases exceptionally low'. It states that there have been difficulties in recruiting maids to fill such posts. The memorandum also examines the pay rates for nurses. 'It is proposed to approve of similar percentage increases in scale salaries to the nursing staffs employed in the other mental hospitals, if proposals in that regard are submitted'.

s 11953B

memorandum

Newsclipping from the 'Irish Independent', 20 August 1948, entitled 'Pay Proposal by Minister not Satisfactory - Hospital Board'. The article states that the Grangegorman Mental Hospital Board recorded its dissatisfaction at the rates of increase in pay for nursing and attendant staff put forward by the Minister for Health. 'The bonuses approved ranged from 3/9 to 5/6 for women and 7/6 to 11/- for men'.

s 11953C/1

newsclipping

nursing

Memorandum from the Department of Health to the Secretary, Department of Finance, 30 October 1948, regarding the question of the payment of a temporary bonus to members of the nursing and attendant staff employed by the Grangegorman District Mental Hospital Authority. The memorandum states that the Government's proposal distinguished between resident and non-resident and male and female workers. 'The Unions representing the Attendant and Nursing Staff in the Grangegorman Mental Hospital expressed complete dissatisfaction with the proposed bonus'. The proposals which were put forward by the Board of Management of the Hospital accorded equal treatment to male and female officers.

s 11953C/1

memorandum